REVIEWED by Jen B.
TITLE: The Rat
AUTHOR: Louise Collins
PUBLISHER: Evernight Publishing
LENGTH: 206 Pages
RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2019
BLURB:
Rory’s not like the other inmates. In fact, he’s not an inmate at all. He’s undercover, tasked with gathering information on Sebastian Claw. He’s planning something for his upcoming release, and Rory needs to find out what.
Rory doesn’t like the Sebastian of the past—the murderer, or the Sebastian of the future—the plotter. He does like the Sebastian of the present. The one he shares his cell, his body, and possibly his heart with.
The line between what’s right and wrong, what’s good and bad, start to blur. But if Sebastian finds out who Rory is, he’s a dead man …
REVIEW:
Here is another case where the characters stole the show for me. The story was ok – I loved the time spent in prison with the guys, but the story outside of that was a little farfetched and hokey. Rory, it turns out, is blackmailed into going undercover to learn about Sebastian’s plan’s for revenge once he is released in a few months.
Rory begins his sentence with two other inmates – Captain (a Veteran suffering from PTSD-induced nightmares) and Ollie (a young guy who murdered his abusive father). They quickly become friends and Captain takes on the role as protector, as much as he can. Ollie is thankfully taken under the wing of his crazy mute cellmate who nobody messes with, and nobody wants to get in the way of the clearly mentally unstable Veteran.
So, Sebastian appears to greatly dislike Rory from the get go – they end up as cellmates, and it takes a while and a number of events before that changes. From there, they begin a really slow burn relationship as their trust begins to grow. Unfortunately, Rory is under a lot of pressure, and the guilt of being undercover and betraying not only Sebastian, but Ollie and Captain as well, is really taking its toll. Again, I loved the time behind bars.
However, the story of why and how Rory ended up with the assignment, the reasons they were going after Sebastian in the first place were just a little too unbelievable to give it credibility in my mind. I did like the way everything turned out, and while I still had trouble with some things, I didn’t have any with the actual relationship with Sebastian and Rory. And I loved Captain and Rory!!
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